All glories to Srila Prabhupad, Hare Krishna,
"SADHU SANGA", The most indispensable requirement for true spiritual realization is so scare & rare during this Kali Yug, that men, in their desperate search for the same often fall prey to the "VANDAS" in the disguise of "SADHUS". This so happens due to the logical ignorance of inquisitiveness. Unless one knows what is really good, how can he search for something really good.
Prabhupada: Therefore you are individual. You know the pleasure and pains of your body. I know the pleasure and pains of my body. But there is another soul; that is Supersoul. Sarva-ksetresu bharata. He knows your pleasure, pains. He knows my pleasure and pains. He knows everyone's pleasure and pains. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese 'rjuna tisthati [Bg. 18.61]. Therefore, as soul they are one in quality, but in consciousness they're different. He knows everyone's pleasure and pains; I know my pl
One evening, Ramesvara prabhu called us all into the temple room for an emergency istagosthi and told us that Srila Prabhupada was in Hawaii but he was very, very ill and he was coming to Los Angeles that night; but no one should go to the airport and greet him, we should be very quiet around the temple and no one should try to ask for darsanas or anything like that. Prabhupada was ill and he was coming to rest, we wouldn’t see him at all. At the end he asked for question
A young Brijbasi looks out over Radha-Kunda
Photos by Ananta Vrindavana Das.
The second in the “Spiritual Embassies of the World” film series, entitled “Sri Vrindavana Dhama, India” has received its premiere in London, England.
The first screening, on December 14th, was shown to a Bhakti Vriksha congregational group at the beautiful 17th century Swiss Church in Covent Garden.
The
Prabhupada: No, total human being, 400,000 species. Altogether, 8,400,000 species of living entities. So these are coming, evolution, by the laws of nature. You cannot stop it. The laws of nature, you cannot interfere. In this way we come to the human form of body, and especially civilized human being. Supposedly, it is the Aryans. The Aryan family, they are the topmost civilized group amongst the living entities. Now, in this life one has to enquire about himself that what is the difference bet
A Summary of Srila Prabhupada’s (Founder Iskcon)Miraculous Accomplishments from 1965 to 1977
by Paratrikananda dasa;
In reading many of the profiles of Srila Prabhupada, I’m saddened that a number of his important projects, programs and achievements are never mentioned. In the following summary I’ve tried to compile a more comprehensive list of his credits. Although this list is also incomplete, I hope it presents a fuller picture of Srila Prabhupada’s greatness.
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In 1965, at seventy years of ag
All glories to Srila Prabhupad, Hare Krishna,
Questioning is something a spontaneous phenomena with almost all the living entities, whether seen & heard or not. This instinct continues to go on till his normal ways of living goes on. So,when this is bound to persist,then should it not be one's mind set to go on asking,....'Am I thinking as I should ?' Why this is happening to me ? Why this is happening to me ? Something I de
The fire of unlimited desires constantly burns our heart. Desires always tease us and like an uncontrolled horse make us wild. Few of the most common desires which everybody nurtures is – desire for amassing wealth, owning a palatial bungalow, driving the most luxurious car, having a beautiful/handsome sexual partner, becoming famous, possessing the latest and the best gadgets and gizmos of this world, remaining always young, looking always attractive, being the cynosure of everyone’s eyes..… an
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Prabhupada:" Yes. This is the order. Guru-mukha-padma-vakya, cittete koriya aikya. Now citta means consciousness or heart. "I shall do this only, bas. My Guru Maharaja told me; I shall do this." Cittete koriya aikya, ar na koriho mane asa. So it is not my pride, but I can say, for your instruction, I did it. Therefore whatever little success you see than my all my Godbrothers, it is due to this. I have no capacity, but
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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Srila Prabhupada Says - [Regarding how ignorance of the law is no excuse]
Guest (4): The false wrong is that he is misled by material consciousness execute the things, really. If he is misled by other, by circumstances, this is... He has no fault of his own.
Prabhupada: That's all right, but innocence is no excuse of law. If you say that "Somebody misled me to go to the left side" in the court, oh, that does not mean that
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Greedy capitalists accumulate wealth under so many miserable conditions, the result being that because they collect money by questionable means, their minds are always agitated. Thus they are unable to sleep at night, and they have to take pills for mental tranquillity to invite sleep. And sometimes even the pills are a failure.
Consequently the result of having accumulated money by so much labor is certainly not happin
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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Letter from Yamaraja
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
You accept these principles of life, no meat-eating, no intoxication, no illicit sex, and there will be no cancer. Those who are strictly on this line, they never suffer from cancer or any such disease. Now take for example me. I’ve come here in this country for the last eight years. How many times have I gone to the doctor? That one heart attack. That is serious, t
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Letters of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhativedanta Swami Prabhupada
Calcutta 19 February, 1972To, Upendra Australia
My Dear Upendra,
Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter of February 2, 1972, and I shall answer your questions as follows:
(1) “Panjika” is a calendar.
(2) As for your question aboutShaanta Rasa and the opinions of Rupa Goswami and Sridhara Swami, I don’t remember. You can send me the appr
Srila Prabhupada and his transcendental books
Veerendra Ekbote
A person throughout his entire lifetime acquires 2 types of knowledges, one that he acquires for his survival in the material world is known as material knowledge and the other for his own personal elevation from material existence is known as spiritual knowledge.
A person in his childhood by fir
Once ‘Saunaka’, Son of ‘Sunaka’, a great householder approached Angiras as prescribed and asked, ‘Venerable Sir, Which is that thing by knowing which all this becomes known? [Mundaka Upanishad 1.1.3]
To him he replied. Two kind of Knowledge are to be known, the higher and the lower. [Mundaka Upanishad 1.1.4]
Of these two, the lower knowledge is the Rig—Veda, the Yagur—Veda, the Sama—Veda, the Atharva—Veda, siksha (phonetics), kalpa (rituals), vyakaranam (grammar), nirukta (etymology), chhandas (m
By H.H. Jayapataka Swami
One day it was Govardhana Puja and we built a big mountain of rice and fed many people. The people took their leaf plates after taking prasadam, and threw them behind the building. Prabhupada was living up on the second floor, and we were sitting in the room together. He heard dogs barking and kids shouting so he got up and walked back on the veranda behind his room. Looking over, he saw that there was this big pile of discarded leaf plates and there were little scraps of
